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VGPolyglot said:
mZuzek said:

Eh, that's why we make jokes about our physical appearance. I'd much rather make a racist joke to a friend I know has fun with it, than make a joke about their beliefs, because that's when you're taking it into "values" territory and mocking them for something they have consciously chosen to believe in. 

Beliefs can be changed though, while race cannot. So, being racist is criticizing someone for something they cannot control.

But criticism of religion is racism (in the Netherlands) as long as it isn't Christianity or Atheism. In all seriousness sometimes stereotypical jokes can be funny though. Like imitating someone's accent, who also copies yours is even racism these days. I suddenly know a lot of comedians being very racist.I would even say it's pretty hard these days not to be racist since the line is very much blurring these days.



Please excuse my (probally) poor grammar

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twintail said:
Because his conduct reflects on the institution he works for.

Seems easy enough to understand, though what's the joke?

Did you read the article?  Here's the offensive, vile, disgusting, filthy racist joke that Nazi KKK Fascist White Supremacist said:

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"The singer, who was born and raised in the southern state of Florida, said the concert had an “antebellum” feel to it, of the sort associated with Gone With the Wind and other rose-tinted representations of the pre-Civil War south.

In response Mobley says that Halls “apologised on behalf of England”, before putting on an exaggerated southern accent and joking: “Do you want some grits?”, in a reference to the ground corn dish popular in the south.

“I’m from the deep south and Matthew often makes fun of the southern accent just as I often make fun of his British accent,” said Mobley. “Race was not an issue. He was imitating a southern accent, not putting on a black accent, and there was nothing racist or malicious about it.”

But the singer suspects that a white woman who overheard their conversation and spoke to him moments later went on to report it to the university, alleging Halls had made a racist joke."

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OMG HE ASKED A BLACK GUY IF HE WANTS SOME GRITS!!!!

Seriously though, where would we be as a society today if we didn't have brave white social justice warriors like the woman who started this whole mess to take offense to racial humor on behalf of actual minorities?

I have relatives who are of Puerto Rican descent, and the stuff we've joked about on a variety of topics over the years would make white SJWs' collective heads explode here in 2017.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

I'm going to keep saying it. None of these thread have merited the title "world gone mad".

North Korea just fired a fucking missile over Japan and we're here bitching about some music director getting fired? Wwwhhhhoooo cccaaaarrrreeesss?



Bet with Adamblaziken:

I bet that on launch the Nintendo Switch will have no built in in-game voice chat. He bets that it will. The winner gets six months of avatar control over the other user.

I don't get why this race-thing continues to be such a big deal in the US.



Normchacho said:

I'm going to keep saying it. None of these thread have merited the title "world gone mad".

North Korea just fired a fucking missile over Japan and we're here bitching about some music director getting fired? Wwwhhhhoooo cccaaaarrrreeesss?

It's easy :

What can you do to change the situation in north korea? Nothing

But you can you do something to stop the fascism and the stupidity that keeps  growing into your own country.



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Never seen people so divided. It's like the world has become one big shitty internet forum.

People calling each others libtards or white supremacist, feminazi or privileged white male.

It's not about defending ideas, it's more about antagonizing each others.

In reality we all are more complex than this, we all have left and right ideas, we agree on lots of stuff, may we be men, women, white, black, politically left or right.



Everything people say as a joke is actually what they meant in secret and they should be punished according to what is said. Jokes are bad because they normalize all the bad things and it's just an excuse to say vile things. #endtojokes



AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Lawlight what's the point of making this political? People can and will be dumb no matter what side of the political spectrum they're on

Well, it is a political discussion - gender politics, race politics... While both sides have dumb people, only 1 side actually has power.



VGPolyglot said:
Well, I guess that answers my question: you are making this into a series. I guess this series is trying to make it seem as though those Marxists have somehow taken over society, right? Well, I guess this is something interest to discuss, but you and I come to very different conclusions. Vive le communisme et l'anarchisme !

They haven't taken over, but they've infected academia, Hollywood and the mainstream media with their destructive ideas.

Thankfully the silent majority can see through the bullshit. 



Lawlight said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Lawlight what's the point of making this political? People can and will be dumb no matter what side of the political spectrum they're on

Well, it is a political discussion - gender politics, race politics... While both sides have dumb people, only 1 side actually has power.

You mean the party in control of the Congress and  Presidency?